Feels like I’m on some mind altering drug!! The clock says 9pm my brain tells me 5am, its 41⁰C, this is the desert, I’m in a hotel room with a bathroom as big as a hotel room and a shower cubicle bigger than most bathrooms and the Eiffel Tower is outside my window!!
Las Vegas is mad – it’s like some crazy American super concentrate of fakery but all done in a way that even if you don’t like it you can’t help but be impressed by it.
I am surrounded by a zillion lights, a million slot machines, mad buildings which when your inside, but for the iced-chilled air, you feel like you might be outside, and when you get outside, enveloped in hot sugary air, there are erupting volcanoes and 500 foot fountains, it’s like being part of some giant weird reality show.
The people are the best though, it’s 6:30 in the morning and walking from the hotel shop with some new toothpaste I come across an octogenarian woman in the lift complete with designer jeans, sparkly baseball cap, two “f**k off” diamond, sapphire and ruby rings zimmering into the casino with her husband on electric wheels on tow, nocturnal crowds of whooping young guys rolling dice, hypnotised slot machine addicts feeding their machines, all sustained with food and drink by over enhanced waitresses in various states of undress!! And then there’s me with two tubes of toothpaste and my new sandals worried that somehow just walking past, I will be sucked into a vortex of debauchery and sin!!
No such luck!
GRB
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